Tips For Improving Your Marketing Strategy

Marketing is the backbone of every business. Without proper marketing, even the best products and services will fail to generate significant revenue. With the advent of new technologies and ever-changing consumer demands, small businesses need to stay updated with the latest marketing trends to keep up with their competitors. However, implementing an effective marketing strategy can be challenging for many small businesses. In this blog, we’ll discuss some tips for improving your marketing strategy to achieve better results for your business.

Develop a Clear Value Proposition

A clear value proposition is a statement that explains what makes your product or service unique and valuable to your customers. It is an essential element of an effective marketing strategy, as it helps you to differentiate your brand from your competitors. To create a clear value proposition, you need to identify your target customers and their needs. You should also analyze your competitors and their strengths and weaknesses. Based on this information, you can create a value proposition that resonates with your target audience.

Identify Your Target Audience 

Identifying your target audience is crucial for reaching your marketing goals. You need to know who your target customers are, their interests, behaviors, and buying habits. Based on this information, you can create targeted marketing campaigns that are more likely to convert. You can use tools like Google Analytics, social media analytics, surveys, and customer feedback to identify your target audience.

Focus on Content Marketing

Content marketing is a cost-effective way to attract and retain customers. It involves creating and sharing valuable, relevant, and educational content that solves your customers’ problems and meets their needs. Content marketing can help you to establish your brand as an industry leader, build trust and credibility with your customers, and generate leads and sales. You can use blogs, social media, newsletters, videos, e-books, and webinars to create and share your content.

Leverage Social Media 

Social media is one of the most powerful marketing tools for small businesses. It allows you to reach a large audience, engage with them, and build relationships with your customers. You can use social media to promote your content, run advertising campaigns, offer discounts and promotions, and provide customer support. However, to be successful on social media, you need to have a clear strategy, consistent branding, and engaging content.

Monitor and Measure Your Results 

Monitoring and measuring your marketing results is crucial for improving your marketing strategy. You need to track your website traffic, social media engagement, conversion rates, and other key performance indicators (KPIs). By analyzing your data, you can identify what works and what doesn’t work for your business. You can then make data-driven decisions that improve your marketing ROI.

A well-designed and executed marketing strategy can help small businesses to gain a competitive edge in today’s business world. By developing a clear value proposition, identifying your target audience, focusing on content marketing, leveraging social media, and monitoring and measuring your results, you can improve your marketing strategy and achieve better results. Remember that marketing is an ongoing process, and you need to constantly adapt to new trends and changes in consumer behavior. By staying updated and implementing these tips for improving your marketing strategy, you can create a successful social media plan that drives revenue and growth for your small business.

If you’re looking to upgrade your marketing strategy on social media, let our team at 98 Buck Social help!

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What photos or videos do you use?

By default, we can use the photos you have on your website as well as utilizing the plethora of photos available to us within our royalty free library.

If you have photos or videos for us to use, depending on your subscription, we welcome you to upload them into a Google Drive folder and share that link with us!

Looking for custom videos?  Some of our plans include videos or you can add them to any plan starting at $98/mo!

How do you mimic my branding colors and style?

As mentioned above, depending on your plan, we can use whatever you’d like to provide us! If not, we’ll resort to using your website or our royalty free library.

That being said, we can come up with custom graphics that suit your branding style as an add-on to your posting subscription.

$98/month for 3 custom graphics each week
$148/month for 5 custom graphics each week

Note: The cost of custom graphics is on top of your monthly subscription cost

What is content review & approval?

Content review and approval is where your social media content creator sends you a weeks worth of posts, prior to their designated publication time the following week.

This way, you will have the chance to give us feedback on each post in case you’d like us to make a minor edit.

Note: One round of editing per post permitted, depending on your plan.

What are the results I can expect from your posting services?

The idea behind consistent posting onto your social media pages is to keep them active with content that promotes your business solutions, educates your audience to showcase your expertise and to also keep things lighthearted, it’s social media after all!

There’s nothing worse for a business than to earn someone looking into what you do, only for them to see a barren social media page. To them, it may appear that you are out of business or potentially a scam.

We are often asked about growing followers and generating sales or leads. These are great goals to have but please understand that those goals are better obtained through paid advertising campaigns.

For more information on paid advertising, please visit our paid advertising services.

Do you use a posting scheduler and how do you get access to my business pages?

We are fortunate to be partnered with CloudCampaign.com to utilize their excellent scheduling platform.

By signing up for our content services, we will set you up with your own Cloud Campaign workspace depending on your plan.

During onboarding we request admin access to your social accounts using a secure platform. This allows us to manage the occasional disconnect when the platforms push out updates.

Furthermore, with your own workspace you are welcome to view and edit content at your leisure!

Why do my posts say “Posted by Cloud Campaign”

We use Cloud Campaign, which is a 3rd party app, to scale social media management and posting. When a post says “Posted by Cloud Campaign”, it is only the admins of your company page that can see this and not your followers.